The Daily Kos article Bill de Blasio shows how Liberals should take control of Right Wing planted reporters explained the video below:
A reporter asked one of the most divisive questions at a news conference in New York City featuring Bill de Blasio, his commissioner, and police chief. The reporter’s question was barely audible. He asked the mayor if he approved of anti-police chants, with some equating the police to the KKK. Bill de Blasio did not run away from the question. He answered it straight on.
“We’ve talked about this so many times,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “I am not going to talk about it again. Now the question is, what are you guys going to do? Are you going to keep dividing us? … Let’s get real. …”
This is not an issue of right or left. It is an issue of the media fomenting problems that they then report on as if they had no causal impact on the story they are reporting. It is about time that people like Mayor de Blasio call attention to the role the media plays in inventing news, not just reporting it.
It’s not as important that the reporter heard him as it is that the rest of us heard him (and other reporters heard him). When you get scolded in public, your natural reaction is to get defensive. When you are paid to do what you just did, that is another incentive to get offensively defensive. For the rest of us, we saw justice done. Yay!
Yes, good point, Steve. There’s a lot of creating your own news going on. De Blasio really told off this guy but it wasn’t clear the guy even heard him.